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Watch The New 'Cyberpunk 2077' Teaser Trailer From CD Projekt RED

Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt RED has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming sci-fi RPG ‘Cyberpunk 2077.’

We’ve been told that this trailer is hideously sexist, but I’m not so sure. It’s a teaser so we don’t have much context, other than what appears to be a mass murder at the “hands” of a scantily-clad cyborg. Why the murder has taken place, whether the police are good or bad…it’s all left to conjecture.

An attractive woman (or robot, as it were) with not a great deal of clothing on is not in and of itself sexist. It may not be particularly original (though again, without much to go on, who knows?) but it’s not sexist, anymore than a six-pack boasting, shirtless he-man is necessarily sexist.

But who cares about that? I’m just super excited to see anything related to this game. Cyberpunk 2077 is a wonderful looking change of pace for The Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt RED. We need more good sci-fi RPGs.

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One of the frames contains a hidden message ( http://tinyurl.com/CDBrojekt ), the contents of which excite me and reassures me that their brolationship with gamers is resolute. The game’s not even close to finished, yet my money is already propelling itself at my screen. Having just played the Witcher series, I feel content abandoning Bioware and putting my trust in CDPR when it comes to crafting a quality RPG experience.

Has to be Witcher 3. Since the info also says, that this project is closer to release and that we all can probably guess what it is. We will know for sure on the 5. Feb. but I would be really, really surprised, if it isn’t Witcher 3.

About the teaser itself I really like how they have a modern look and still transport the feeling of the 80s cyberpunk genre (the woman on the poster in the background is one of the early Cyberpunk artworks if I’m not mistaken; nice touch). Music is great and I really like the nice contrast between the high poly models and the painted background. The fact that CD Project gives some interesting information in the text hidden at 2:14 really is the icing on the cake for me. IMO a really good example for well made teaser trailer.

Uh, you should really check out the trailer on the games youtube (http://youtu.be/P99qJGrPNLs). This blurb is take from its description. I was super hyped till i found out about the more than 2 years away likelihood.

Welcome to the year 2077. More info: http://www.cyberpunk.net/

The teaser shows how the Psycho Squad might acquire a new member.

The Psycho Squad specializes in combating “psychos” — individuals who overuse implants and substances that boost or otherwise alter the human body.

There comes a point when they overdose on these innovations, and their bodies start to rebel against their biological body parts as well as all things organic around them. Simply put, they start killing people, who they now derisively call “meatbags.”

When a psycho goes on the rampage, strange things can happen. There’s carnage, and the psycho might be taken down by regular police, but they’re not always able to get the job done.

When things spin out of control, they call in MAX-TAC (Maximum Force Tactical Division), popularly called the Psycho Squad.

Right, but even with the blurb we don’t really have very much to go off of – certainly not enough to say that this is somehow a sexist trailer. Nor do we know if there’s a deeper story behind the blurb’s surface. Just saying, it’s called a “teaser” for a reason.

You know Erik, there’s a lot of people that follow you because you don’t pander to that ‘everything-is-sexist’ or ‘gamers-are-entitled’ crowd. I never thought anything about this was sexist, and indeed from what we see there is nothing inherently sexist about the trailer, yet as you linked to us, we see that people believe it is and it’s frankly getting annoying.

Sexist or not, what’s bugging me about this trailer is that the only thing they’re not going subtle about is the boner factors. And a red high heel?! Seriously? Bottom line: properly pumped about the game but disappointed in the direction of the teaser itself.

Couldn’t agree more with Erik. If you look at all the promo stills its pretty clear that the world CDProjekt is creating has a very distinct fashion sense, which seems to give the game a pretty unique and interesting futuristic sheen.

Blade runner, Looper & hunger games all had stylized OTT fashion senses to them (not in a star wars kinda way though) and they looked pretty damned cool.